Are Del-York International and the New York Film Academy not ripping off Ignorant Nigerians?
Are Del-York International and the New York Film Academy not ripping off Ignorant Nigerians?
It’s prohibitively expensive, even though we do need the training. Give us half that price and we’ll get the same kind of specialized resource persons from Asia to provide the same training.
~ Prof. Femi Shaka of the Department of Creative Arts, University of Port-Harcourt in Nigeria.
The nascent popularity of Nollywood, the Nigerian digital film industry has attracted global attention since a UNESCO Report rated it the second largest movie industry in the world after the United States of America and ahead of India’s Bollywood.
The largely homegrown industry has generated millions of naira and created thousands of jobs from Idumota in Lagos to Iweka in Onitsha and the environs in Eastern Nigeria where most of the producers and marketers hail from.
Over 80 percent of the movies are home videos of what would be rated as B-movies and slapstick comedies of typical Nigerian st...